The signs that give away who might just be running the Sussexes’ Instagram page

As a rule, Royal Family members aren’t allowed to have personal social media accounts. Just before her wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018, Meghan Markle deleted all her personal accounts, shortly after closing the doors on her lifestyle blog, The Tig in the previous April.

But rumours are that the Duchess may have found her way back into the grips of social media with the emergence of her and Prince Harry’s Instagram page, @SussexRoyal.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex step out with their own Instagram page. (Getty)

Previously, Meghan and Harry’s work engagements were shared on the @KensingtonRoyal alongside The Cambridges, but as the birth of their first child draws closer the pair have branched off with their own page.

And rumour has it, that it could be the Duchess behind the captions after eagle eyed Royal watchers spotted a few clues.

First, and probably most obvious – the use of American spelling of words. Although the Duchesses first language is obviously English, she is from the US, meaning she spells words differently to that of her British husband – or their staff. Captions of Meghan and Harry’s Instagram posts have tended to stick to the American versions of certain words such as: Organization rather than organisation and re-engergized rather than re-energised.

Royal watchers have also picked up on other Americanisation’s on the page, such as using dollars rather than pounds, also diapers rather than the British-English term, nappies.

There has also been an unusual use of emoji’s. The first emoji emerged on the @SussexRoyal on the second ever post, where a camera emoji was used to credit a photographer. Also, a red heart was used in a post thanking fans for their charity donations.

Now it might not sound like much, but seeing as the Royal Family’s Instagram and other social media is relatively straight forward and fact driven, the introduction of emojis seems to show a bit of never before seen personality in the feed. Not to mention, that prior to deletion of the accounts, Markle was an avid social media user with over 1.9 million followers on Instagram and over 300k on Twitter.

If Meghan is actually getting her social media fix, we’d like to think she’s scrolling through all the meme pages daily, screen shotting the funny ones and texting them to Prince Harry.